EDUCATION
2020 Masters of Fine Art (Studio Art), University of California Santa Barbara, CA
2012 Masters of Teaching, Chaminade University, Honolulu, HI
2010 Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in Studio Art, Elon University, Elon, NC
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2025– Director, Hartnell College Art Gallery, Hartnell College, Salinas, CA
2025– Professor of Art, Hartnell College, Salinas, CA
2024-25 Director, Wylie and May Jones Art Gallery, Bakersfield College, CA
2023-25 Associate Professor of Art, Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA
2021–23 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, IL
2020-21 Lecturer of Painting and Drawing, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
2018-20 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of California Santa Barbara, CA
AWARDS & GRANTS
2025 Utopia (contributor) — Best Art Book, International Book Awards (winner)
2024 Levan Summer Grant, Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA
2024 Nomination, Samuel W. McCall Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, Bakersfield College, CA
2022 1st Place, The In Art Gallery, Collinsville, IL
2022 Best in Show, Proud: Pride & Expression, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, IL
2021 Merit Award, Small Works Competition, Wood River Museum, IL
2020 1st Place, UC Santa Barbara Humanities & Fine Arts Contest, Santa Barbara, CA
2019 Lorin '68 and Karen Letendre Scholarship, Santa Barbara, CA
2019 Levitan Fellowship, Santa Barbara, CA
2019 Interdisciplinary Humanities Council Grant, UC Santa Barbara, CA
2018—20 Chancellor's Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, CA
2017–18 Year-Long Research Sabbatical, Hawaii Department of Education, Mililani, HI
2017 Hawaii Education Association Grant, Honolulu, HI
2015–17 Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation Grant, Mililani, HI
2010–12 Segal AmeriCorps Education Award, Honolulu, HI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Art Teleported, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2022 NYC Phoenix Art Collective, New York, NY
2019 Enslavers & Survivors: Facing My Family’s Past, UCSB Glassbox Gallery, CA
2019 American Cotton, UCSB Glassbox Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2019 Eye to I: Self Portraits Today, UCSB Glassbox Gallery, CA
2018 Grandmother: The Woman I Never Knew, Glassbox Gallery, CA
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2020 Secretly Planted, California State University, Channel Islands, CA
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2025 Crosscurrents, Glassbox Gallery, University of California Santa Barbara, CA
2024 Resonantly Me, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2024 ArtMix, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2023 Faculty Exhibit, Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA
2022 Family Ties, Giertz Gallery at Parkland College, Champaign, IL
2022 SIUE Faculty and Alumni Exhibition, The University Museum, Edwardsville, IL
2021 Unending, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA
2021 SIUE Faculty Exhibition, The University Museum, Edwardsville, IL
2020 UVU Faculty Exhibition, Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT
2020 Field Day, Art, Design and Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA
2020 Secretly Planted, California State University, Channel Islands, CA
JURRIED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Summertime, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
2024 Selfhood, Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2023 Annual Juried December Exhibition, State of the Art Gallery, Ithica, NY
2023 Proud, Jacoby Art Center, Alton, IL
2023 23rd Annual Photography Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2023 It Was All Very Queer, St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis, MO
2023 Personal Histories, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2022 Color 2022, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2022 Community Showcase, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, IL
2022 Proud: Pride & Expression, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, IL
2022 3rd Annual Painting Juried Exhibition, The In Art Gallery, Edwardsville, IL
2022 Naughti Gras, Koken Art Factory, Saint Louis, MO
2021 2nd Annual Painting Juried Exhibition, The In Art Gallery, Edwardsville, IL
2021 Anne Metzger Memorial National Biennial Exhibition, St. Louis, MO
2021 Celebrate LGBTQ!, Stola Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 Small Works Competition, Wood River Museum, Wood River, IL
2021 Pride Story Garden, Salt Lake City, UT
2020 Two-Person Exhibition, California State University, Channel Islands, CA
2020 GLAMFA 2020: Double Play, California State University Long Beach, CA
2013 Japanese Chamber of Commerce Annual Commitment to Excellence, Honolulu,
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Roots to Horizons, Hartnell College Art Gallery, Salinas, CA
2019 Encyclomedia, Red Barn Gallery, UC Santa Barbara, CA
2018 Vision 20/20, UCSB Glassbox Gallery, CA
2018 Gallery 113, Santa Barbara, CA
2015 Punahou Art Show, Punahou School, Honolulu, HI
2010 Hot Air?, Elon University, Elon, NC
COMMISSIONS
2021 Snicker’s “Rookie Mistake” ad campaign with National Football League (NFL) wide receiver Davante Adams
PUBLICATIONS
Sharpe, Marshall. “Utopia” Utah Valley University School of the Arts, 2022
Sharpe, Marshall. “PRINTS! The Joan and Stuart Levin Collection, AD&A Museum, UCSB.” Lum Art Magazine 2018. https://www.lumartzine.com/articles/2018/12/10/prints-the-joan-and-stuart-levin-collection
Sharpe, Marshall. “Landscapes of China, Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney, AD&A Museum, UCSB.” Lum Art Magazine, 2018. https://www.lumartzine.com/articles/landscapes-of-china-arnold-chang-and-michael-cherney-ad-a-museum-ucsb
RESIDENCIES
2024 Artist-in-Residence, Creekside Arts Residency, Freshwater, CA
2021 Artist-in-Residence, UVU Capitol Reef Research Field Station, Utah
RELATED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2012–17 8th Grade Special Education English Teacher, Mililani Middle School, HI
2010–12 7th Grade Special Education English Teacher, Wahiawa Middle School, HI
PRESS
Liu, Nicholas, “UCSB’s MFA Exhibition is ‘Unending’ at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara,” Santa Barbara Independent, Santa Barbara, CA, August 31st, 2021
Sanders, Connor, “Pride Story Garden Provides an Immersive Look at Utah’s LGBTQ Experience,” The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, UT, June 4th, 2021
Madeleine. “Secretly Planted: Serene Blumenthal and Marshall Sharpe, CSU Channel Islands,” Lum Art Magazine, California, 2021
Woodard, Josef, “UCSB’s MFA Candidates Show Their Work,” Santa Barbara Independent, Santa Barbara, CA, June 6th, 2020
PBS Hawaii. “Teacher-Painter.” Episode 716. Directed by Angela Tagayuna. Written by Krysta Reese, Alyssa Cruz, Emily Huff & Paul Stanley. Hiki No. May 10th, 2016.
Herreria, Carla, “Artist Marshall Sharpe Brings the Lost Monarchs of Hawaii Back to Life.” Huffington Post, 2014. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/marshall-sharpe-hawaii_n_4656215.html
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2025 Larger-Than-Life Visions: Jose Ortiz, Hartnell College Art Gallery, Salinas, CA
2025 Hijos Del Sol: Apprentice and Student Work, Hartnell College Art Gallery, Salinas, CA
2025 Roots to Horizons, Hartnell College Art Gallery, Salinas, CA
2025 Bakersfield College Student Art Show, Wylie and May Jones Art Gallery, Bakersfield College, CA
2025 Panorama Invitational (High School Student Art Show), Wylie and May Jones Art Gallery, Bakersfield College, CA
2024 Ephemeral Visions by Yumiko Glover, Wylie and May Jones Art Gallery, Bakersfield College, CA
2024 Did You Catch a Firefly? By Autumn Nicole, Wylie and May Jones Art Gallery, Bakersfield College, CA
2024 Material-Memory, Memory-Material, by Austin McCormick, Wylie and May Jones Art Gallery, Bakersfield College, CA
2024 Voices Through Art, Wylie and May Jones Art Gallery, Bakersfield College, CA
2023 SIUE Bachelor of Fine Arts Group Show, Edwardsville Public Library, Edwardsville, IL
2019 Undergraduate Art Exhibition, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
2021 FATE – Foundations in Art: Theory and Education
2019 College Arts Association
2010 Phi Beta Kappa
2010 Phi Kappa Phi
CERTIFICATIONS
2020-25 California Single Subject Teaching Credential, Art K-12
2012–22 Standard License, Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, Art 6-12, English 6-12
BIBLIOGRAPY
Sharpe, Marshall. “PRINTS! The Joan and Stuart Levin Collection, AD&A Museum, UCSB.” Lum Art Zine, 2018. https://www.lumartzine.com/articles/2018/12/10/prints-the-joan-and-stuart-levin-collection
Sharpe, Marshall. “Landscapes of China, Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney, AD&A Museum, UCSB.” Lum Art Zine, 2018. https://www.lumartzine.com/articles/landscapes-of-china-arnold-chang-and-michael-cherney-ad-a-museum-ucsb
PBS Hawaii. “Teacher-Painter.” Episode 716. Directed by Angela Tagayuna. Written by Krysta Reese, Alyssa Cruz, Emily Huff & Paul Stanley. Hiki No. May 10th, 2016.
Herreria, Carla, “Artist Marshall Sharpe Brings the Lost Monarchs of Hawaii Back to Life.” Huffington Post, 2014. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/marshall-sharpe-hawaii_n_4656215.html